The $24.9 billion leverage buyout of the US IT company by its founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Management, completed in September following months of negotiations. The deal helped highlight issues relating to ‘empty voting’

Ireland has became the first in Europe to outline a regulatory framework for direct lending by alternative investment funds. The Central Bank of Ireland’s market policy head, Martin Maloney, told IFLR he expected other governments to follow

A recent announcement by Indonesia’s foreign investment regulator clarified new limits on foreign investment in listcos. But it may adversely affect foreign investors who had long believed the regulations did not apply